Do I have cankles?

[Anonymous]

Op, I don't see cankles when I look at you. When I think of cankles I think of elephant shaped legs, and you don't have those. You look solid and I am impressed that you appear to not have any cellulite.

[Anonymous]

no

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of people on this thread do not know what cankles are.

OP does not have big ankle bones, and/or her ankle bone is hidden under a little fat so they look soft, so maybe this is where the confusion lies. Her ankles are significantly narrower than her calves, therefore they are NOT cankles.

I remember one of my mom’s friend’s cankles. She was average height and weight, maybe in the thin side, and was a avid runner. But her calves seemed to go all the way to her feet without narrowing. Those are cankles.

You need to get your eyes checked. Her legs are a straight line from calf to what should be an ankle.

You need to get your eyes checked! Seriously, get a ruler. Significant difference. Not cankles.

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You must have cankles or date cankled women. Either way you need your eyes checked. You have beer goggle syndrome.

Nope! I am tall and thin with full calves but skinny ankles. And I date women. And I wouldn’t care if a woman had cankles but OP DOES NOT HAVE THEM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people on this thread do not know what cankles are.

OP does not have big ankle bones, and/or her ankle bone is hidden under a little fat so they look soft, so maybe this is where the confusion lies. Her ankles are significantly narrower than her calves, therefore they are NOT cankles.

I remember one of my mom’s friend’s cankles. She was average height and weight, maybe in the thin side, and was a avid runner. But her calves seemed to go all the way to her feet without narrowing. Those are cankles.

You need to get your eyes checked. Her legs are a straight line from calf to what should be an ankle.

You need to get your eyes checked! Seriously, get a ruler. Significant difference. Not cankles.

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You must have cankles or date cankled women. Either way you need your eyes checked. You have beer goggle syndrome.

Nope! I am tall and thin with full calves but skinny ankles. And I date women. And I wouldn’t care if a woman had cankles but OP DOES NOT HAVE THEM.

Sure you are! And yes she has fat ankles at a normal weight hence the cankles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not cankles, just fat legs.

They don’t look fat to me - they look athletic.

Cankle is defined as fat ankles. Europeans have the most beautiful women because they don't have this ridiculous obesity acceptance. People can't accept what cankles are or what overweight is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kind of, but I think that's mostly a part of being overweight. It's not a "true" cankle where you would have it at 110 lbs and 5'6, more like legs just chunked up all over so lost some ankle definition.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They taper in, then out= not cankles. Cankles kind of pop out at you when you see them- your ankles don't.

Ok let's put this to rest. She has cankles. Here is a woman with cankles before surgery and after with no cankles. Cankles are thick ankles.

LOL what was operated on here, exactly? She lost ten pounds and went to the tanning bed.

It’s people like you who made me incredibly self conscious about my legs when I was younger. I starved myself at one point to try to get my legs to look “normal” and even at 5’8” and 115 pounds, I still had tree trunk shaped legs. I have considered the surgery that the person in this photo had, but I decided to try and accept the body I was given. You come off as an ass.

I’m sorry to hear this, but I think you are misreading me. The person pictured lost mass in her thighs as well as her lower legs. It wasn’t liposuction that did this; it was some amount of weight loss. Tanning is a notorious optical confuser. Accepting the bodies we have is essential. Apparently it’s especially so if the issue is “cankles,” because if this pic is the evidence of how “cankle surgery” works, we don’t have much to hope for from it.

Personally, I hate my neck.

[Anonymous]

Maybe, maybe not...depends on peoples' definition of cankles. When I look at your legs, they just look un-toned and not fit. I can see why some would call them cankles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people on this thread do not know what cankles are.

OP does not have big ankle bones, and/or her ankle bone is hidden under a little fat so they look soft, so maybe this is where the confusion lies. Her ankles are significantly narrower than her calves, therefore they are NOT cankles.

I remember one of my mom’s friend’s cankles. She was average height and weight, maybe in the thin side, and was a avid runner. But her calves seemed to go all the way to her feet without narrowing. Those are cankles.

You need to get your eyes checked. Her legs are a straight line from calf to what should be an ankle.

You need to get your eyes checked! Seriously, get a ruler. Significant difference. Not cankles.

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You must have cankles or date cankled women. Either way you need your eyes checked. You have beer goggle syndrome.

Nope! I am tall and thin with full calves but skinny ankles. And I date women. And I wouldn’t care if a woman had cankles but OP DOES NOT HAVE THEM.

Sure you are! And yes she has fat ankles at a normal weight hence the cankles.

Fat ankles? Normal weight? Which picture are you looking at?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not cankles, just fat legs.

They don’t look fat to me - they look athletic.

Cankle is defined as fat ankles. Europeans have the most beautiful women because they don't have this ridiculous obesity acceptance. People can't accept what cankles are or what overweight is.

Definitely not athletic. OPs legs are chubby but not all chubby legs have cankles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They taper in, then out= not cankles. Cankles kind of pop out at you when you see them- your ankles don't.

Ok let's put this to rest. She has cankles. Here is a woman with cankles before surgery and after with no cankles. Cankles are thick ankles.

This woman never had cankles. If she actually had "cankle surgery" (is that a thing?) then it's only because of harridans like you causing her body dysmorphia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not cankles, just fat legs.

They don’t look fat to me - they look athletic.

Cankle is defined as fat ankles. Europeans have the most beautiful women because they don't have this ridiculous obesity acceptance. People can't accept what cankles are or what overweight is.

Definitely not athletic. OPs legs are chubby but not all chubby legs have cankles.

These do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of, but I think that's mostly a part of being overweight. It's not a "true" cankle where you would have it at 110 lbs and 5'6, more like legs just chunked up all over so lost some ankle definition.

Who at 5’6, 110 lbs has cankles? I’m similar, and I can wrap my fingers around my ankle, but my calves are much larger from weight lifting and run/bike/hike activities.

I’m a PP who doesn’t think OP has cankles. I know people with true cankles, front butts, and multiple chins. BMI’s 35-40+

Kristin Davis was thin in Sex and the City and she had cankles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They taper in, then out= not cankles. Cankles kind of pop out at you when you see them- your ankles don't.

Ok let's put this to rest. She has cankles. Here is a woman with cankles before surgery and after with no cankles. Cankles are thick ankles.

Cankles to me are when the width of the calf is the same as the width of the ankle. OP doesn't have cankles.

Right? Cankles are when there is literally no difference in circumference from the calf to the foot. The woman pictured above, as well as OP, may have thick ankles, but there is clearly a narrowing at the ankle region when compared to the calf. So, thick ankles, but not cankles.